The Blacks sued Google over a negative third party review of their business published in an unspecified Google property. This lawsuit was obviously preempted by 47 USC 230 from the get-go, so I easily fit my prediction of the case’s outcome into a tweet. In August 2010, the district court dismissed the lawsuit on Section 230 grounds in an efficient opinion.

The Ninth Circuit didn’t find this case any more challenging than the district court did. In a brief unpublished memo opinion, the court upheld the district court’s ruling. The main substantive sentence of the Ninth Circuit’s opinion:

2003) (“Through [section 230 of the CDA], Congress granted most Internet services immunity from liability for publishing false or defamatory material so long as the information was provided by another party.”).